Research Faculty

Karla Addesso

Insect Chemical Ecology
Insect Behavior
Plant-Insect Interactions
Behaviorally-Based Pest Management
Integrated Pest Management

Clement E. Akumu

Applied Remote Sensing, GIS and GPS
Spatial Analysis
Risk/Hazard Modeling
Land Cover/Land Use Mapping and Change Detection
Greenhouse Gases and
Predictive Ecosystem Mapping
Environmental Management and Policy

Ahmad Aziz

Biotechnology
Sorghum Genetics
Biofuel Feedstock

Fulya Baysal-Gurel

Plant Pathology
Mycology
Plant Disease Diagnosis
Plant Disease Management
Integrated Pest management
Biological Control of Plant Diseases and Biopesticides

Matthew Blair

Plant Breeding
Molecular Genetics

Richard Browning

Physiology and Genetics in Beef Cattle and Meat Goats

Fur-Chi Chen

Molecular, biosensor, and immunoassays for food safety applications
Risks assessment of food safety practices during processing and storage

Sam Dennis

Soils and Water Quality

Charles Dumenyo

Genetics of plant-associated bacteria
Soft rot pathogenesis

Aliyar Fouladkhah

Antibiotic Resistance
Antimicrobial Interventions against Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens
Ecology of Planktonic Cells and Biofilms of Food and Environmental Bacteria
Foodborne Diseases Epidemiology

Prabodh Illukpitiya

Agriculture, natural resource and energy economics

202P Farrell-Westbrook Complex

Aditya Raj Khanal

Agribusiness Finance and Management
Small Farm Business, Income Risk and Diversification
Technology Adoption
Food Security, Food Demand, Economic Development

Agnes Kilonzo-Nthenge

Antimicrobial Drug  Resistance of Foodborne Pathogens
Microbial safety of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Characterization of Microorganisms in Consumer Homes

Jianwei Li

Climate Change
Biogeochemistry
Soil Science
Microbial Ecology
Ecosystem Modeling

Margaret Mmbaga

Plant Pathology
Integrated Disease Management
Biological Control
Host Resistance

Samuel Nahashon

Poultry Nutrition
Animal Biotechnology

Dilip Nandwani

Vegetable Production (Organic & Conventional)
Sustainable Horticulture Tropical Fruits, Roots and Tubers
Organic Certification
Plant Tissue Culture International Agriculture

Jason Oliver

Integrated Pest Management
Biological Control
Semiochemicals/Trap Development
Insect focus groups: Japanese Beetle, Imported Fire Ants, and Wood-Boring Beetles

Emmanuel Omondi

Industrial hemp agronomy Sustainable agriculture
Cropping systems agronomy Conservation agriculture

Christine Ondzighi-Assoume

Biotechnology
Physiology
Cell Biology
Biochemistry
Genetic and Molecular Engineering
Bioenergy

Ankit Patras

Optical based technologies for food applications
Bioassay testing
Fluid optics
Application of ozone, ultrasonics, high hydrostatic pressure processing
Food Analysis
Food Physics
Process modeling (Kinetics, optical modeling)

Bharat Pokharel

Forest growth and yield models
Sampling and experimental designs
Forest resources inventory and monitoring
Ecological land classification on forest growth and yield modeling
Forest site productivity
Predictive habitat modeling
Modeling wood quality and fibre attributes
Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS)

Sudipta Rakshit

Fate of Emerging Contaminants: Pharmaceuticals and metalloids (antimony)
Nutrient Cycling (nitrogen and phosphorus)
Redox Biogeochemistry of Humic Substances
Environmental Remediation

Yongming (Simon) Sang

Animal Genomics and Immunology

615-963-5183

Hongwei Si

Comprehensive and integrative relationship among nutrients, lifestyle and health

Bill Sutton

Wildlife Biology
Herpetology
Conservation Biology
Biostatistics

Ali Tahari

Plant Molecular Genetics and Breeding
High-throughput genotyping and phenotyping
Functional genomics 

Anthony Witcher

Sustainable nursery crop production with an emphasis on weed management, crop nutrition, and alternative soil/substrate amendments

Ying Wu

Product development for prevention of chronic diseases;
Chemical and physical characterization of food components;
Rheological investigation of biomaterials;
Physiological evaluation of food components with health benefits;
Mechanism elucidation of structure-functionality relationships of polysaccharides;
Encapsulation of probiotics, antibiotic alternatives and nutraceuticals for food/feed application;

De’Etra Young

Urban and Community Forestry Management
Urban Forestry Education
Hydrological Modeling
Forestry in the Wildland-urban Interface

 202  Agricultural Biotechnology Building

Suping Zhou

Genetics, Physiology and Molecular Biology of Abiotic Stress in Plants